ICE, MEN AND A STARLING

Synopsis

When the filmmaker learns that his 87-year-old grandfather, a legendary ice sailor, is building his last iceboat, he takes his camera and rushes to the remote island where his grandparents live. Their home is filled with decades of passion for sailing. A passion that none of their offspring ever carried on. But time, age, and the changing climate are closing in. What begins as an attempt to document the process becomes something more: the filmmaker realizes he has become Vello’s last chance to sail the ice. Grandmother Urve is worried when they begin taking trips to the bay. After all, ice sailing is a dangerous sport – speeds can exceed 100 km/h on the unpredictable ice field. Yet, paradoxically, she enables them to continue. Urve holds their small world together. Set against vanishing winters, the film is an intimate, intergenerational story about legacy and resilience. It’s a poetic yet humorous reflection on the inheritance of passion.